Courts

It should be up to the trial court or a jury to determine whether a vendor in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis should be
held responsible for serving alcohol to a man who later hit two children while driving home after a game.

The Indiana Court of Appeals found a trial court abused its discretion when it originally imposed a probation condition prohibiting
a man from going within two miles of where he committed battery against a stranger.

One of Indiana’s most familiar legal names – a frequent flier on buses, billboards and TV commercials –
says enforcement of disciplinary rules governing attorney advertising is a mess and needs an overhaul. The Indiana State Bar
Association is considering preapproving ads.

The Indiana Supreme Court is considering whether a teacher took a substantial step toward the crime of attempted child seduction
when he sent explicit Facebook messages to a 16-year-old student and proposed arranging to meet for sex.

Shortly after a federal judge ordered Indiana to recognize the marriage of one same-sex couple, the Office of the Indiana
Attorney General continued its defense of “traditional marriage” by filing a notice of appeal with the 7th Circuit
Court of Appeals. By doing so, it added to the list of appellate courts hearing challenges to state marriage laws.

Members of the American Law Institute help to research and write the Restatements of the Law, which are used by judges and
attorneys to gain insight into laws and how those laws are applied around the country.

Eight students from three law schools have been selected for summer internships with judges of the Indiana Court of Appeals
and Tax Court through the 2014 Carr L. Darden Conference for Legal Education Opportunity internship program.

Although a principal was responsible for formulating and implementing a security plan for her school, the level of discretion
the principal had was not enough to give the school district immunity from liability following an in-school shooting.

The federal civil lawsuit naming two former Indiana University students who were among the last to see missing IU freshman
Lauren Spierer will proceed, but a judge Monday narrowed the inquiry regarding one defendant and halted discovery in the meantime.

A faulty legal notice published to advertise a public hearing for the purpose of creating a fire protection district in northern
Madison County was sufficient grounds for the state to deny creation of the district, the Indiana Tax Court ruled Friday.

May 17 marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark case that ended legal segregation in the United States. The federal courts
are commemorating the historic Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Brown v. Board of Education with a variety
of online resources.

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of Wells Fargo on its action to foreclose on a mortgage and
collect from the guarantor of the loan, ruling that the loan documents were properly assigned to the bank.

In a case where a woman sought modification of her sentence more than a year after it was imposed, the Indiana Supreme Court
found that the prosecutor’s conduct satisfied the “approval” requirement of Indiana Code 35-38-1-17(b).

The Indiana Supreme Court has suspended Indianapolis attorney and developer Paul J. Page from the practice of law for at least
two years, although one justice thought he should be disbarred. The suspension stems from his guilty plea to one count of
wire fraud in 2013.

A Clark Circuit judge lacked statutory authority to find a nurse in indirect civil contempt for completing an application
for emergency detention of her co-worker, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.